On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 08:32:10PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > > but maybe someone else could be so kindly and code it. > > The first step would be to muster a consensus that it is indeed always > wrong to have no .diff.gz for a package with an upstream author > outside Debian. I'm not quite sure such a consensus exists today. Well as far as I remember Mentors on debian-mentors always ask people to make non-native packages. In fact that should be probably default behaviour. There is no reason to build native packages except situations where program is really Debian specific. Yeah, I know that sometimes DD's contributes to external projects, but from my experience having upstream debian/* subdirectory often makes more trouble than advantages. Sometimes upstream authors release new version, and debian/* is outdated. Then I have to create diff.gz even so. My conclusion is that if non-native packages should be default ones, then why don't we provide some warnings if someone made native packages by mistake? That won't hurt to do `touch debian/native` for natives, but it hurts when someone won't notice that he made native by mistake. regards fEnIo -- _ Bartosz Feński | mailto:fenio@o2.pl | pgp:0x13fefc40 | IRC:fEnIo _|_|_ 32-050 Skawina - Głowackiego 3/15 - w. małopolskie - Polska (0 0) phone:+48602383548 | Slackware - the weakest link ooO--(_)--Ooo http://skawina.eu.org | JID:fenio@jabber.org | RLU:172001
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